Mentor Graphics is a leader in electronic design automation. We enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. Our innovative products and solutions help engineers conquer design challenges in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design. Mentor Graphics provides its customers with critical tools for solving the increasingly complicated problems of verifying that today�s complex chip designs actually function as intended. Functional errors at the system level are the leading cause of design revisions affecting time to market and profitability. Design teams must improve existing methodologies with tools that scale across design complexity and multiple levels of abstraction. The Mentor Graphics Functional Verification� platform, featuring the Questa advanced verification environment, is the most comprehensive EDA solution for functional verification, merging standards support, tools and a �design for verification� methodology to minimize verification cycles and design revisions. This solution provides the industry�s best language support and the most complete path for verification, from hardware description language (HDL) simulation to in-circuit emulation, including support for testbenches, assertions and functional prototypes. Mentor offers standards-based support for the most advanced verification requirements with integrated technologies now including the 0-In assertion-based verification tools and methodologies to enable comprehensive verification throughout the entire design.

C-Based Design design best practices Design complexity of next-generation digital signal processing (DSP) applications is outgrowing the capabilities of current design methods. Increasingly, designs are large systems that include embedded cores, IP, and complex hardware that implements computationally intensive algorithms. Traditional hardware implementation of these computationally intensive blocks requires many manual steps which are inevitably error-prone. The Catapult C Synthesis product from Mentor Graphics is a customer-proven algorithmic synthesis environment using pure C++ language to describe functional intent. This enables engineering teams to produce reliable ASIC or FPGA hardware that is up to 50 percent smaller in size, in a significantly reduced amount of time. Catapult C Synthesis unites the system-level and hardware design domains and, combined with the Mentor Graphics ModelSim� simulator, lays the foundation for next-generation electronic system level (ESL) design. Electrical Systems and Harness Design A new car now contains 15 percent more electronics than the models of one year ago, in entertainment, navigation and safety systems. As the electrical wiring systems in the transportation industry become increasingly complex, so the need for software solutions to manage this complexity grows. Mentor Graphics offers an unrivalled range of leading-edge solutions being used by OEMs and wire harness manufacturers throughout the world. Mentor's Capital Harness� Systems is a powerful design environment developed specifically for the wire harness industry, providing a data-centric tool suite for electrical systems and associated harness design. Embedded Systems Design Most electronics products today are a synthesis of hardware design and embedded software, and the embedded software is the main differentiator for product functionality and performance. As a result, embedded software has increased dramatically in electronic systems design. Mentor Graphics is the only EDA company to offer design solutions for embedded software. Mentor's Nucleus� software development platform offers a source code with no royalty fees, a real-time operating system (RTOS) and a fully integrated development system. This means that embedded software tools can be developed and tested at the same time as hardware, and can be debugged simultaneously. Furthermore, the simultaneous development enables a "design-in" reliability so that good architectural decisions can be made in both hardware and software development. Platform-Based Design The growing complexity of systems-on-chips, including increased complexity in commercial blocks of intellectual property (IP) blocks, creates challenges in optimizing the interfaces between a core microprocessor and its peripherals. Platform-based methodology involves building and configuring a design around a stable core platform and connecting by means of standard buses which have been optimized for use with the processor core. The Platform Express� environment from Mentor Graphics verifies the viability of interfaces in the portion of the design surrounding the embedded processor and its attached peripherals. By automating tedious and error-prone design creation and verification steps, Platform Express shortens product development cycles and allows designers to focus on product differentiators. Consulting, Services and Support Mentor Graphics global customer support organization offers leading customer support solutions online, by phone and in-person, to ensure that customers can find answers to their questions at any hour of the day or night from anywhere in the world. The company's "customer first" approach has resulted in Mentor Graphics being the only EDA company to achieve Support Center Practices (SCP) certification and be an unprecedented five-time winner of the Software Technical Assistance Recognition (STAR) Award from the Service and Support Professionals Association. Mentor Consulting is an expert in electronic design infrastructures and methodology services and is the only service partner in the industry that invests in the transfer of knowledge to its customers. Their solutions are used worldwide by forward-looking electronics companies to optimize design productivity and advance adoption of the latest industry. Mentor Consulting is the EDA expert in design infrastructure and methodology services and is the only service partner in the industry that invests in the transfer of knowledge to its customers. Our extensive knowledge of both electronic design and EDA allows us to work with your current tool suite, whether you have Mentor Graphics tools or not. It is our mission to provide the methodologies, infrastructure, and IP services that meet the critical design productivity needs of our customers

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